International Leprosy Association - History of Leprosy

Dr Chapman Hunter Binford

Status

Physician

Country

USA

Notes

Chapman Hunter Binford (1900-1990) was Chief of Infectious Disease Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from 1951 to 1955. He was appointed medical director of Leonard Wood Memorial in 1963 and vice-president of International Leprosy Association from 1968, and was executive director of the International Journal of Leprosy. He received the Damien Dutton Award in 1971. Binford carried out extensive research into leprosy, primarily on the search for, and evaluation of, animal experimental models and on the pathology of leprosy.